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the jesuit alumni power structure List of London School of Economics people

The list of London School of Economics people includes notable alumni, graduates, professors and administrators affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science. This includes 34 past or present heads of state, as well as 18 Nobel laureates.[1]

The situation since 1945

As per ordinance 45-2284, issued by Charles de Gaulle on 9 October 1945, two entities were created from ELSP: Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (English: National Foundation of Political Science) or FNSP and Institut d'études politiques de Paris (English: Paris Institute of Political Studies) or IEP Paris.[3]
Both entities were tasked by the French government to ensure “the
progress and the diffusion, both within and outside France, of political
science, economics, and sociology”[2]The epithet Sciences Po was applied to both entities, which inherited the reputation previously vested in ELSP.[4] France's Legislature entrusted FNSP with managing IEP Paris,
its library, and budget, and an administrative council assured the
development of these activities. The curriculum and methodology of the ELSP were also the template for creating an entire system of institutes of political studies (French: Institut d'études politiques)
across France, namely in Strasbourg, Lyon, Aix, Bordeaux, Grenoble,
Toulouse, and then in Rennes and Lille. They are not to be confounded
with Sciences Po's satellite campuses.FNSP further strengthened its role as a scientific publication center with significant donations from the Rockefeller Foundation. FNSP periodicals such as la Revue française de science politique, le Bulletin analytique de documentation, la Chronologie politique africaine, and the Cahiers de la Fondation as well as its seven research centres and main publishing house, Presses de Sciences Po, contribute to the reputation attained by Sciences Po research.[2]

Recent reforms

Sciences Po has undergone myriad reforms under Richard Descoings, Director of Sciences Po (1997–2012). Sciences Po
has introduced a compulsory year abroad component to its undergraduate
degree, and now offers a multilingual curriculum in French, English, and
other languages. New educational sites have been set up in Nancy, Dijon, Poitiers, Menton, Le Havre and Reims. Sciences Po also set the length of its undergraduate program to three years and its graduate program to two years in line with the Bologna Process.Sciences Po also implemented reforms in its admissions process. Previously, Sciences Po
recruited its students almost exclusively from elite schools (mostly
state-funded) in France, but in March 2001, the school's governing
council widened its admissions policy.[5] From September 2002, Sciences Po
began accepting a small batch of students from certain schools located
in economically depressed suburbs of Paris on the basis of their school
record and a 45-minute interview, rather than the name-blind examination
all other students must pass to be admitted. The reform is intended to
broaden the socio-economic characteristics of Sciences Po student-body, and gained national and international media attention for being the first affirmative action
experience in France, despite the initial controversy it brought up it
is now broadly accepted by the French and considered a relative success.
Moreover, Sciences Po introduced an alternative recruitment method -the so-called procédure internationale-
for foreign students or students with an international background, as
they are not well prepared for the French written examination. Sciences Po also accepts a large contingent of graduate students from abroad without written exams.

Rankings

In September 2007, Sciences Po was rated the 8th best university in
the world by the annual higher education survey conducted by the École
des Mines de Paris thus placing it above both Oxford and Yale. In 2008 Sciences Po ranked 11th, below Oxford and just above Yale,[3] and in 2009 it ranked 15th.[4] The ranking by the École des Mines asks CEOs of the 500 biggest multinational companies where they did their studies. In the Times Higher Education Ranking 2006[5] and in the QS World University Rankings 2010 in Social Sciences,[6] Sciences Po was rated 52nd of the best universities worldwide. In the same ranking in 2011,[7] it was rated 35th worldwide and 1st in France in Politics and International studies.

Organization

Admissions

There are different admission procedures at Sciences Po (figures of 2010):

Undergraduate programs : acceptance rate 6-8%

For holders of the French baccalauréat:

Admission based on the "concours" examination at Bac+0 level: 280 successful candidates.

Admission based on the student file and an interview for students from disenfranchised neighbourhoods.

Admission based on the student file for summa cum laude baccalauréat holders.

Since 2002, the number of applicants has steadily increased. In 2002,
there were 200 applicants for the international program. By contrast
there were 800 applicants in 2008: an increase of 300% in 5 years. For
the examination, the number of applicants has doubled in five years.
There was an increase of 500% of the number of applicants with a Summa cum laude mention.

Campuses

Sciences Po's garden, between the rue Saint-Guillaume and the rue des Saints-Pères.

The entree to 27 Rue Saint-Guillaume.

Sciences Po is located in the center of Paris, in the 6th and 7th districts (arrondissements) :

27 rue Saint-Guillaume houses the head office since 1879. There are
the biggest meeting rooms of Sciences Po are Amphitheatres Émile Boutmy
and Jacques Chapsal.

Student union and clubs

The entire political spectrum is represented in the Student Union: UNEF (left), InterZaid-Fac Verte, Nouvelle Donne, UNI (right) and Sud Etudiant (far left). Delegates are elected each January by the students.

There are five permanent associations at Sciences Po:

Bureau des élèves (BDE) is the studentbody organization.

Association sportive (AS) offers participation in individual and team sports and organizes sportive or recreative events.

Undergraduate program

Description

In 2000, Sciences Po set the length of its undergraduate
program to three years and the length of its graduate program to two
years in line with the Bologna Process. The first three years of study
are referred to as the premiers cycles, which focuses on the full-range of the social sciences, particularly public policy, International Relations, economics and political economy, management studies, finance, geography, constitutional and administrative law, philosophy, and sociology. Students generally spend their third year of the premier cycle
abroad, at one of Sciences Po's nearly 300 partner schools around the
world. Students are, however, also given the option of spending the year
interning for an institution related to their field of study. In
addition to academics, Sciences Po's curriculum incorporates more
practice-oriented skills like teamwork, effective oral communication
and presentation skills, and nurturing leadership potential. Sciences
Po's student-body is active, with more than seventy student clubs,
councils, and organizations.As of 2010, almost half of the student body was foreign. In recent years, Sciences Po
has adopted a multi-lingual education policy: students are expected to
be proficient in at least two foreign languages. More than one-third of
classes are provided in languages others than French, including English,
Spanish, German, and Italian. Currently, however, fluency in French is
required for admission to most Sciences Po degrees.

Satellite Campuses

While all of Sciences Po's graduate programs are taught in Paris, the
school has six additional undergraduate campuses in France. Each of the
six campuses has its own distinct cultural identity and academic focus.
They are designed to widen the academic concentration of the wider
Sciences Po community, and allow students enrolled in the three-year
Sciences Po undergraduate program, the collège universitaire, to
specialize in a given region. Students who wish to study at either of
the six satellite campuses usually need to apply through the Sciences Po
admission services. Upon completing their undergraduate studies by
spending a year abroad, all students usually move to Paris for their
graduate studies (Master).As the satellite campuses are part of Sciences Po Paris, their
official designations always include the word "Paris" in order to
distinguish them from the so-called "IEP de province". For instance,
Sciences Po Paris' Dijon campus is officially named Sciences Po Paris in
Dijon:These are 6 regional campuses:

The French-German Undergraduate Program is located in Nancy, which is
at the centre of the Lorraine region of France, and maintains close
ties to the German-speaking world given its proximity to the German
border. Strasbourg and the European Parliament are also located nearby.
This premier cycle focuses on the history of Franco-German relations,
and its relevance for the future integration of the European continent.
The main languages of instruction on campus are English, German, and
French, and the student body is primarily made up of students from
France and German-speaking countries.

The European Undergraduate Program is located in Dijon, which is the
capital of the Burgundy region of France. The area is renowned for its
winemaking and gastronomic heritage. A real Europe in miniature, the
European Campus of Sciences Po welcomes students of more than twenty
nationalities for the bachelor with a specific focus on the European
Union and on the East Central European studies. This premier cycle
initiates students into the challenges of the widened European Union,
and Central European politics and history. Courses are taught in English
and French, but students may also study at least one Central-European
language (either Czech, Hungarian, Polish), Italian (with an initiation
of Romanian) or Russian.

The Ibero-American Undergraduate Program is located in Poitiers, a
small city in western France. This premier cycle specializes in the
politics and history of Iberia and Latin America. Courses are taught in
French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. The majority of students come
from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

The Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Undergraduate Program is located
in Menton, a town on the French Riviera minutes from Monaco and the
Italian border. This premier cycle gathers students from North Africa,
the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, Israel, and all European nations. In
particular, it focuses on the study of relationships between the
northern and southern sides of the Mediterranean, as well as the
analysis of the links between Europe and the Middle East. Courses are
taught in French, English, and Arabic.

The Euro-Asian Undergraduate Program is located in Le Havre, a city
in Haute Normandy in northern France. The biggest port city of France,
Le Havre, is UNESCO world heritage city. French/European students can
learn Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, and Korean, in addition to English;
while Asian students have to study French and one of the Asian
languages, other than their mother-tongue. All courses during first year
are in English, flavored with French in the background, to put the
students at ease; but gradually moves towards French as the medium of
instruction by the end second semester. It is therefore important to be
able to speak, write, read and effectively communicate in French, else
it can become quite challenging, especially when learning an Asian
language is manadatory for all.

The Euro-American Undergraduate Program in Reims, housed in a former
Jesuit College, has opened its doors in September 2010 and focuses on
transatlantic relations. 45 minutes from Paris by train, Reims is famous
for being the coronation site of the Kings of France and for its
impressive Gallo-Roman heritage. Its rich past, its architecture ans its
ancient Champagne producing tradition put this city of the
Champagne-Ardennes region at the very heart of European and French
history.

Third Year abroad

Richard Descoings
has decided in the reforms he engaged at Sciences Po that every student
should spend his third year abroad. Thanks to 350 university partners,[9]
students at Sciences Po have multiple possibilities. Students can also
do an internship in a company, a cultural association, an embassy, etc.

Master's degrees

Description

Upon completion of the third year of undergraduate studies, students
return to Paris for a two-year graduate program of their choosing
leading to a Master's degree. Students from the school's undergraduate
programs make up about half of the graduate programs' student
population, the remainder having completed undergraduate studies
elsewhere in France or abroad. Most programs are taught in more than one
language though English-only programs are also available. Students can
choose from a wide array of programs designed either by Sciences Po
alone or in conjunction with other universities.

Single Master's degrees

The school's traditional "single" Master's degrees are suited for
those seeking to develop professional skills in a specific area without
losing the benefits of a generalist education. The curriculum generally
comprises a set of generalist courses known as the "tronc commun,"
specific courses related to the chosen field of study, and an internship
semester.

Economics and Public Policy in association with the
Polytechnique and the ENSAE (School of Statistics) with support of Nobel
Prize laureates such as Edmund Phelps, Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen.

Students eyeing with an academic career can apply for admission into research-based programs
with an additional focus on scientific methods. The requirement to gain
work experience during the internship semester is replaced with a
requirement to write a Master's thesis. The school has offered Master recherche
programs in such fields as economic governance, theory of
organisations, political theory, sociology, and history. However, as of
early 2009, the school is overhauling all of its research-based
programs.

Dual Master's degrees

Alternatively, students can apply for admission into one of the
school's double degree programs designed in conjunction with partner
universities in France and abroad. Students are awarded two degrees upon
studying one year at each university. As the writing of a Master's
thesis is often part of the graduation requirements at partner
universities, dual programs can also be suited for those interested in
an academic career.

Post-experience Master's degrees

Instructors

Instruction is provided by a staff of around 1,400 teachers, a
majority of whom are practitioners in their respective fields. Most
recently, instructors included or still include former French Prime
Minister Dominique de Villepin, current WTO president Pascal Lamy, former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former French foreign minister Hubert Védrine, Nobel Prize Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, former Lebanese Minister of Culture Ghassan Salame and former Economics minister as well as former Managing Director of IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn. These instructors are anchored by around 800 tenured professors

Research

Doctoral School

The Doctoral School is currently directed by Hervé Crès
and includes 175 faculty members and 600 doctoral students. It was
created in 1988 and welcomes students for their Master and PhD studies.

Research Master's

The Research Master’s program entails two years of interdisciplinary
instruction in four basic social sciences: political science, history,
sociology and economics. This interdisciplinary approach is designed to
reinforce and round out graduate-level training. The Research Master’s
program prepares students for doctoral studies and subsequent careers in
research and higher education. But it also opens out into a wider range
of career options (work in consulting, expertise, public opinion
polling, publishing etc.) thanks to the links between the Sciences Po
Master’s degree and Research Master’s programs in the form of joint
courses and degrees.The Research Master’s program offers:

an outstanding academic framework

close administrative support all the way through to entry into professional life

openness and close links to outside academic and professional domains at national and international levels.

Students in the Research Master’s program can choose from among six
concentrations: History and Theory of Politics, International Relations,
Politics and Society in Europe, Comparative Politics, Sociology of
Action, Economic Governance.

History and Theory of Politics, with two specialities:

History

Political philosophy

Comparative Politics with four specialities:

Asia

Latin America

Muslim world

Russia and CIS

International relations with three specialities:

Political science of international relations

History of the international relations

Economy of the international relations

Economic Governance

Politics and Society in Europe proposes four specialities:

Sociological analysis of change

Europe

Public policy

Political sociology

Sociology of Action

PhD Program

Sciences Po is accredited to confer PhD degrees in economics, history, political science and sociology.The Sciences Po PhD Program counts roughly 600 doctoral candidates, a
third of whom hail from abroad. About 40 defend their dissertations
each year. The program has a long-standing tradition of
multi-disciplinary scholarship.The PhD Program covers 15 fields of study, which follow up on those
offered in the Master’s program: Latin America, Sociological Analysis of
Change, Asia, Economics of International Relations, United States,
Europe, International Finance, Economic Governance, History, Muslim
World, Political Thought, Russia/CIS, Political Science of International
Relations, Sociology of Action, Political Sociology and Public Policy.In addition to academic training, the PhD Program provides a number
of student services, including financial aid for PhD studies as well as
for research abroad, support and promotion for publications, and job
placement guidance and assistance.

Habilitation

Sciences Po awards a French postdoctoral degree called Habilitation
qualifying the holder to supervise doctoral research in economics,
history, political science and sociology.Habilitation is the crowning degree for university studies in France:
it attests to the holder’s high level of scholarship, the originality
of their approach, the ability to master a research strategy in a
sufficiently broad field of inquiry and to supervise young scholars. It
qualifies the holder, moreover, to join the corps of university
professors.

Research centres

FNSP manages the research faculty and facilities of Sciences Po, and is one of the largest social sciences research bodies in Europe. FNSP
manages research centres, a doctoral school, a library and a publishing
house. The FNSP manages eight research centres (five jointly with CNRS). The foundation of Sciences Po predates by a few decades the creation of political science, as such the Institute focuses on all the social sciences that study the political field.

Research networks

Euredocs is a network run by Sciences Po made up of doctoral students
and recent PhD recipients (who have defended their dissertations within
the past three years). The network addresses the Europeanization of
higher education and research, including such issues as the structure of
academic curricula, evaluation/accreditation procedures, changes in
national education policies and university governance, academic career
patterns, the production of knowledge, the impact of
internationalization/globalization etc.

GARNET Network of Excellence : “Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU”

Funded under the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme, the
GARNET network gathers 42 leading research centres and universities in
Europe and operates with a budget of 5,4 millions euros over 5 years
(2005–2010). Sciences Po is represented in the network by CERI who runs a
specific “dissemination of excellence” programme. A number of GARNET
activities address doctoral students and finance their participation:

PhD School Network develops interdisciplinary seminar programmes
focusing on key theoretical and methodological issues on global
governance and the role of the EU. These one-week seminars bring
together professors and PhD students from all over Europe and the world;

Research programmes are particularly welcoming participation of
doctoral students, namely 18 Jointly Executed Research Projects, the
“Capacity Building in Professional Training on Issues of Global
Governance and Regulation” program and GARNET Annual Conferences;

Mobility programme offers up to 1,500 Euros/ month allowance to
doctoral students at the later stages of their dissertation wishing to
participate in the research activities of GARNET partner institutions
for short or long period.

Connex Network of Excellence on Efficient and Democratic Governance in a Multi-level Europe:

CONNEX is a network set up under the 6th Framework Programme for
European Research and Technological Development (2002–2006) to analyze
various facets of democratic governance in Europe.

Library and publishing

Library (Bibliothèque de Sciences Po)

Founded in 1871, the nucleus of the school’s research is Bibliothèque de Sciences Po, which "houses" 650,000 books about social sciences
and 4,500 journals and annual publications, although only approximately
one fifteenth of these is available to students at any given time. The Bibliothèque
is also the hub of the Documentary Service which maintains 18,000 press
dossiers on a wide range of sub-topics, and which each years abstracts
and indexes some 10,000 articles from 1,200 periodicals each year.[8] In 1982, the National Ministry of Education made the Bibliothèque the Centre for Acquisition and Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information in the field of political science, and since 1994, it has been the antenna associated with Bibliothèque Nationale de France.[9]Bibliothèque de Sciences Po is also the main French partner in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, which is based at the London School of Economics.[10]

Alumni alliance

Graduates of Sciences Po are usually referred to as Sciences Po.
"Rue Saint Guillaume" is the Sciences Po's alumni magazine. The vast
majority of teachers and professors working in Sciences Po are alumni.Some French students further their studies at École nationale d'administration (ENA), which is often viewed as the compulsory educational step before serving in French politics or diplomacy.

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